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started, as his dream had said, toward the north. He had not gone 

 far when he came to a fallen tree with the roots turned up. On 

 starting to go ai'ound this, when halfway around, he saw Gaasyen- 

 diet'ha, which had its great mouth open and seemed very angry. 

 When the Gaasyendiet'ha saw that the man was not frightened, it 

 began to laugh; then, changing itself to a man (human being), it 

 said : " You must take one of my teeth out. This will be of great 

 use to you, for it will enable you to change yourself into any form 

 you wish." The man took out one of the double teeth, the one 

 farthest back in the jaw. At this Gaasyendiet'ha said: "You shall 

 live. You shall have full magical power in your possession, but you 

 and I must always counsel with each other, especially if you are 

 in trouble; now we must part." Immediately Gaasyendiet'ha, resum- 

 ing his natural form, flew off through the air. 



Going back to his hut, the man made up his mind that this should 

 be his home hereafter. He remained in the hut one year ; at the end 

 of that time, getting lonely, he thought of the people, and said to him- 

 self : " I will go and see whether I can find anybody." As he started 

 he turned himself into a Gadjidas^"" and flew toward the southwest. 

 He did not know how far he might go before finding people, but. 

 as he soared high, he kept looking down on the earth. After a time 

 he saw something directly to the west which made him think people 

 were living there, so he came lower and lower. When near the 

 ground he saw a village and said : " Well, I shall eat up all the 

 people that live here, but if I find a good-looking woman, I shall 

 take her home." Then he turned himself into a Ganiagwaihegowa, 

 and, beginning at the first hou.se, he ate all the people. When he 

 thought he had eaten everybody and had seen no woman that suited 

 him, he saw away off on one side of the town a little hut from which 

 smoke came out. Going there, he found an old man and a woman with 

 .several children, all of whom he ate. Then saying, " I have finished," 

 he changed himself into a man. He stood around a while and then, 

 seeing a little trail, followed it. He had not gone far when he met a 

 woman who was very handsome and whom he liked at once. As 

 they talked together he asked : " Whei'e do you live ? " " Oh ! right 

 over here at that lodge," she replied. He said, " You would better go 

 home with me, for there is no one living there; all the people are 

 dead." " I must see first," she answered. They then went back to 

 the village. She led him to the last hut, in which he had found the 

 old man and woman with the children. She was their daughter. 

 Finding only the blood on the ground, she began to cry. He laid 

 his hand on the top of her head, and as he touched her she instantly 

 became senseless; whereupon he shook her, causing her to become a 

 small gnat. Changing himself into a hen hawk and putting the 

 gnat {ogenhican) under his wing, he flew off in the direction of his- 



